Electric cigar-lighter



(No Model.)

H. M. HANDSHY. ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER.

Patented May 4,1897.

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HENRY M. IIANDSIIY, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

ELECTRIC ClGAR- LIGHTEP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,718, dated May 4, 1897.

Application filed August 10, 1896. Serial No. 602,279. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. HnNnsnv, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a'certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of electric cigar-lighters; and the objects of my invention are to provide an improved construction of electric cigar-lighter by means of which a cigar maybe lighted against a glowing surface, to provide improved means for operating the lighting mechanism, to combine with my improved lighter an advertisement-displaying device, and to produce other improvements the details of construction of which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the mann or illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of my improved lighter. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the same, taken on line pg of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section on line 06 Joel Fig. 1. Fig. etis a detail sectional view of thelighting-handle, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged end view of said lightinghandle.

Similar letters refer to similarparts throughout the several views.

In the construction of my improved cigarlighter I employ a suitable base a, which is in the form of a casing and which is designed to be supported upon a counter or other suitable surface. Extending upward from this base-casing a is a tubular standard I), the lower end portion of which extends within the base a, said lower end portion having thereon an insulating-block Z). About that portion of the standard which is within the base a I provide a collar 0. Fulcrumed on a transverse rod d in the upper portion of the tubular standard Z) is a bell-crank lever d, the longer area of which extends through an opening (1 in the side of the standard. This longer lever-arm is connected with the upper portion of the standard by means of a coilspring d Projecting from the inner wall of the tubular standard I) is aninsulating-block (F, from which project inwardly two separated metallic contact-lugs d" and 61 c and c represent, respectively,wires which lead from a source of electricity into the base a, thence to bindiug-posts 6 which project from the insulating-block Z). From these points said wires extend to and pass about the collar 0 in the form of resistance-coils 6 The wire 6 passes from the collar 0 upward through the standard I) to an opening fin the upper portion of said standard and thence outward through said opening. The wire 0, running from the collar 0, also extends up ward through the standard and connects with the contact-1n g d". g represents a wire which has one of its ends connected with the contact-lug d, from which point said wire extends outward through an opening in the side of the standard. The outwardly-extending portions of the wires 6 and g are insulated, and the wire portions thus insulated are twisted or otherwise joined together and are supported in a depending position from the outer end of the lever d by means of a cord or chain 7b. The lower ends of the wires 0 and g are, as indicated more clearly in Fig. et of the drawings, made to pass longitudinally through an elongated lighting-handle 2', which is formed of porcelain or other suitable material. The outer end of this lightin ghandle has seated therein a plate 7a of platinum, the outer surface of the latter being flush with the end of thehandle. The ends of the wires g and care connected with opposite sides of said platinum plate.

To the upper end of the standard I) is secured an incandescent-lamp socket m, from which is supported a vertical lamp-bulb m. Upon the lamp-socket m I support a square frame m in such position as to bring the lamp-bulb on within or opposite said frame. This incandescent lamp has connected therewith in the usual manner the upper ends of wires 71 and 77/,which run, respectively, from the contact-lug d and wire 6'.

In the upper side of the lower portion of the base-casing a I form a cigar-tip opening 0, and through an opening in the wall of said casing I cause to extend a cutting-lever 0 which is fulcrumed within the casing. The inner end of this cutting-lever is provided with an upwardly and inwardly turned outting-blade 0, which when the outer end of the lever is depressed is designed to shear against the under side of the casin g beneath the opening 0. "Within the casing and immediately beneath the opening 0 I provide a horizontal drawer p, which is designed to be moved out ward and inward through an opening in the wall of the casing.

The operation of my improved lighter is substantially as follows: By grasping and raising the lighting-handle i the longer arm of the lever d is relieved of the weight of said lighter, with the result that said lever-arm is drawn upward by the spring 6 G and the inner and shorter arm of said lever is thrown be tween and into contact with the lugs (F61 thereby establishing a current through the wires 0 and g and imparting a glowing head to the platinum plate 7;, against which a cigar end may be held for lighting purposes. The dropping of the lighter results, as will be seen, in a disengagement of the contact-lever with said lugs and in a cutting off of the current from the plate 70. It is obvious that the lamp 177/ may be provided with the usual cut-elf and that the same maybe lighted at pleasure. The frame m is adapted to contain a suitable transparent advertising plate or plates.

From the construction and operation herein shown and described it will be seen that a simple, reliable, and effective electric cigarlighting device is provided and that by inserting the tips of cigars into the opening 0 of the base and operating the lever 0 said tips may be cut off anddeposited into the drawer 1).

Having now fully described inyinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an electric cigar-lighter the combina tion with the base-easing a, tubular standard I) rising therefrom, separated contact-lugs in the upper portion of said standard, wires 6 and 6' leading from said base-casing through said standard, said wire 6 being connected with one of said contact-lugs and the wire 0 passing through an opening in said standard and a wire 9 extending from the remaining contact-lug through an opening in said standard, of a spring-actuated bell-crank leveri'ulcrumed within said standard, a lighting-handle supported from said wires 9 and e, a platinum plate on said lighting-handle, said plate being connected on opposite sides with. the ends of said wires 9 and c and said lastnamed wires being connected with the outwardly-extending arm of said lever, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In an electric cigar-lighting device the combination with a standard, a spring-actuated bell-crank lever d fulcrumed in the upper portion of said standard, separated contact-in gs opposite said bell-crank, wires e and 6' leading through said standard from a source of electricity, one of said wires connected with one of said contact-lugs and the remaining wire 6 passing outward through said standard, a wire g leading from the remaining contact-lug outward through the standard, a lighting-handle suspended by said wires 9 and c a platinum plate on said lightinghandle with which said wires are connected and a chain or cord connection between the outer end of said bell-crank lever and said wires g and c, of an electric-light lamp sup ported upon said standard, a wire a leading thereto from the wire 6 and a wire a leading thereto from one of said contact-lugs and a frame about said electric lamp, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY M. IIANDSllY.

In presence of- E. W. BnINKEn, A. L. PHELrs. 

